"...The movie exhilarates with its blistering pace and extraordinarily corrupt villains..." USA Today "Z is a pulse-pounding procedural that pieces together the murder of a left-wing youth leader....This is an amazing film..." -- Grade: A-Entertainment Weekly "It was the perfect film for the end of a turbulent decade, and eternally relevant to the brutal regimes that have popped up since." -- Grade: A-Box Office19.37424

"[A] beautiful film, and along with John Malkovich, an Oliveira favorite, at his most urbane, it features to fine advantage three of the international cinema's most elegant and enduring actresses..."Los Angeles Times0.219443

"...The movie shimmers with a bluish-gold luminescence reflected from the turquoise waters of the Ionian sea....A glorious ode to the sun-baked island on which it was filmed..."New York Times "...[The] photography of island ocean vistas and town squares is so fare the year's most gorgeous..."USA Today "...[Madden] and his cast deliver the storytelling goods in many fine isolated moments..." Box Office0.1828692